Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (522); (movable feast day on the 5th Sunday of Great Lent); Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, Cyril the Deacon and those with him (circa 364); Saint John Anchorite of Egypt (4th century); Venerable Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th century).

Commemoration of Hieromartyr Basil, presbyter of Ancyra (362); Martyr Drosida (Drosis) of zntioch, and five virgins (104); Saint Isaac, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383).

Commemoration of Martyrs Agapius, Publius, Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dikonisius, and two named Alexander, at Caesaraea in Palestine (303); Hieromartyr Alexander, presbyter of Side in Pamphylia (270-275); Martyr Nicander of Egypt (circa 302).

Commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (4th century); Synaxis [Meeting] of All Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv-Caves Abbey; Venerable Theophylactus the Confessor, bishop of Nicomedia (842-845); Apostle Hermas of the Seventy (1st cent.); Hieromartyr Theodoretus, presbyter, of Antioch (361-363); Ven. Dometius, monk (363).

“Ти, Господи, землю колись заклав, а небо – то чин
Твоїх рук. Загинуть вони, а Ти будеш стояти…”
(Євреїв 1:10-11)

Протоієрей Тарас Славченко
2-га Неділя Великого Посту

Commemoration of Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates, The General (319);
Prophet Zachariah (circa 520 B.C.); Saint Sava II, Archbishop of Serbia (1271).

Commemoration of Martyr Tryphon of Campsada in Syria (250); Martyrs Perpetua, of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus and Felicitas (202-203); St. Peter of Galatia (circa 429); St. Vendemianus, hermit of Bithynia (circa 512).

Commemoration of Saint Gregory the Theologian, archbishop of Constantinople (389); Martyrs Felicitas of Rome and seven sons: Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial (164); Saint Publius, ascetic of Syria (380); Saint Mares the Singer of Syria (430).

“Christ Is Baptized!”, “In the River Jordan!”

Commemoration of the Synaxis [meeting] of the 70 Apostles: James the Brother of the Lord, Mark and Luke the Evangelists, Cleopas, Symeon, Barnabas, Justus, Thaddeus, Ananias, Stephen the Protomartyr and Archdeacon, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Onesimus, Epaphras, Archippus, Silas, Silvanus, Crescens, Crispus, Epenetus, Andronicus, Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles, Aristobulus, Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius, Philologus, Lucius, Jason, Sosipater, Olympas, Tertius, Erastus, Quartus, Euodias, Onesiphorus, Clement, Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Carpus, Quadratus, Mark, Zenas, Aristarchus, Pudens, Trophimus, Mark, Artemas, Aquila, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; Dionysius Areopagite and Simeon Niger; St. Theoctistus, Abbot at Cucomo in Sicily (800); Venerable Aquila, of the Far Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (14th century); Venerable Martyr Zosimas the hermit and Martyr Athanasius the warden (3rd – 4th cent.).